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Chapter 161 Establishment

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    When Mr. Ye came out to embroider the building, he turned back to the East Garden through the white marble courtyard gate.

    She entered the master bedroom, where Zhao Liben was sitting on a recliner, soaking his feet with saffron and ginger in a pine barrel. It is said that this is good for the kidneys.

    Ye asked the maid to step aside, rolled up her sleeves, squatted beside the barrel, and helped Zhao Liben pinch his feet.

    "Well, your skills are much better than Lan'er." Zhao Liben closed his eyes and enjoyed it for a while, and then asked quietly after a while: "What did Xueying say?"

    "She said we are all too young, let's talk about it in two years." However, Ye Shi slightly modified the wording to avoid making Zhao Liben angry.

    Unexpectedly, Zhao Liben did not get angry. He touched his high hairline and smiled bitterly: "Oh, I still don't like this."

    "I disappoint you." Ms. Ye raised her head, looked at Zhao Liben with an apologetic face and said, "Xue Ying has had her own opinions since she was a child. I can't force her if she doesn't nod."

    "Hey, my kid is actually the same. Even though he is humming and haha ??to me, he is actually just like a stubborn cow. He refuses to drink water." Zhao Liben pulled out a foot from the water.

    Mrs. Ye picked out the nourishing mud from the small jar, dried Zhao Liben's feet and applied it evenly, and finally wrapped it in a cloth.  Then do the same with the other foot.

    "My lord, what should we do next?" Ye asked again.

    "Let's do this for now. If you push them too hard, bad things will happen. Let's wait until they are older" Zhao Liben sighed. He had no good way to deal with Zhao Hao.  I don't want to push too hard and affect the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren - the old man has learned a lot about the marriage of younger generations, and knows that the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren is now the core relationship of the Zhao family, and one cannot afford to sacrifice for the small.

    "The children don't know, we are all doing this for their own good" Then Ye leaned gently on Zhao Liben's leg and said faintly: "Back then, it would have been great if someone had worried about me like this."

    "Hey, don't mention the past anymore." Zhao Liben stretched out his hand to pinch Ye's white earlobe and whispered: "I will be there in the future."

    "Yeah." Ye nodded slightly and closed her eyes intoxicated.

    ??~~

    Because they had to arrive in Beijing before the canal completely froze, Zhao Hao and others only stayed one night in Yangzhou before setting off north.

    Early the next morning, Zhao Liben called Zhao Shouzheng into the main room alone.

    Zhao Shouzheng stood behind his father, looking up at the portraits of his grandparents enshrined in the hall, feeling a little uneasy.

    Usually this kind of scene is usually accompanied by scolding and sporadic corporal punishment

    But today, Zhao Liben, with a pleasant look on his face, first offered a stick of incense to Xian Kao and his concubine, then stepped aside and said, "You can also offer a stick of incense to your grandparents."

    "Yes." Zhao Shou responded hurriedly, wiped his hands on his robe, respectfully twisted a stick of incense, lit it and put it on his forehead, bowed four times, and then inserted it into the incense burner.

    Then he knelt down and bowed four times.

    However, Zhao Liben did not let Zhao Shouzheng stand up. Instead, he clasped his hands behind his back and looked up at the two portraits of his parents. He sighed with emotion: "These two portraits were given to your grandfather after his father passed the examination as the prefect of Changsha."  When the fourth grade of Zhengzhi Yin was given to my grandmother as a gift, I asked someone to paint the portraits of the two elders."

    "Although the two elders were later awarded the third grade, they are no longer in the world, and they can't paint even if they want to." Zhao Liben wiped the corners of his eyes and waved his hands and said: "Before your grandfather died, the thing he missed most was you. He knew it.  , your eldest brother has an official position, but you are unable to study or do business, so he is worried about your future."

    Zhao Shouzheng¡¯s eyes turned red, tears fell, and he choked with sobs:

    "At that time, the old man held my hand and told me to pass the exam. This time, thanks to the blessing of my ancestors and my son's strong supervision, the child can finally comfort his old man."

    "Yes, I heard that you won the exam. As a father, I am happy." Zhao Liben abides by the rule of "a gentleman embraces his grandchildren but not his children." He has always treated his two sons with unpretentious words and bad words at every turn.  This was the first time that Zhao Shouzheng heard such recognition from his father.

    "Dad has been worried about me all these years" Zhao Shouzheng burst into tears.

    "But don't get carried away!" Zhao Liben took a deep breath, turned around and reprimanded Zhao Shouzheng and said: "What does it mean to be promoted? Can you run rampant in the countryside and win all the lawsuits? Or do you have to wait in line for more than ten years and suffer hardships?  The assistant official?"

    "Uh" Zhao Shouzhen said sincerely. As expected, a son knows better than his father. My father knows my life ideals very well.

    "You don't really think so, do you?" Zhao Liben said with a look on his face.

    "No, no." Zhao Shouzheng didn't want to be slapped before leaving, so he hurriedly waved his hands and said repeatedly: "Son, I want to work hard."A Jinshi came back.  "

    "This is like a human saying. Only if you pass the Jinshi exam can you be strong enough to be an official in the future." Zhao Liben encouraged his son, then hesitated and said: "Normally, there is a saying that should wait until you pass the Jinshi exam. But I don't know the next step yet.  , where will you go? It¡¯s rare for you and my father to meet, so please keep it in mind.¡±

    "Please give me some advice, father." Zhao Shou was busy pretending to be all ears.

    "My father has a six-character mantra to teach you," then Zhao Liben said in a deep voice: "You should speak slowly and your heart should be kind."

    "It's better to be slow in speech and kind in heart?" Zhao Shouzheng repeated this sentence and kept it in his mind.

    "This is the official code tailor-made for you by your father." Zhao Liben then helped him up from the ground, looked up at his son who was half a head taller than him and said: "You are not limited to being an official, you will also be a human being in the future.  Remember these six words. If you forget, just look at your son's guard named Gao Wu and learn from him, and you won't make any mistakes."

    "" Zhao Shouzheng was confused for a moment, so he had to accept it first.

    ??~~

    After Zhao Shouzheng went out, Zhao Liben called Zhao Hao into the room alone, handed him five 10,000-tael votes and said:

    "Use your seal to go to Chongwenmen Wuji and you can withdraw cash directly."

    "Wow, grandpa is so rich." Zhao Hao's eyes shone as he counted the five silver notes again and again, then he put them away happily and said, "I will save money."

    "Excuse me, spend it all on me!" Zhao Liben waved his hand and said, "Whether your father is successful or not, before you leave Beijing, you won't have any money left for me!"

    "Ah, spend it all" Zhao Haoxin said that this was a bit difficult. He spent more than half a year lavishly in Jinling City, but he didn't even spend five thousand taels of silver.

    Now Zhao Liben asked him to spend all the 50,000 taels of silver within a few months, which makes him feel distressed when he thinks about it.

    "That's right." Zhao Liben nodded without a doubt and said, "We need to establish a tall image in the minds of all the officials in the government and the public that the old Zhao family is really fucking rich. We need people to associate you, Zhao Hao, with the God of Wealth."

    Zhao Hao nodded in understanding, thinking that Zhao Gongming¡¯s surname was Zhao

    "This will make it much easier for your father to be an official in the future." Zhao Liben patted Zhao Hao on the shoulder and said hopefully: "Grandpa knows that you have your own ideas. No matter what you do, your wealth and reputation will make you famous.  Of course, your father's officials must be able to protect you."

    "Oh." Zhao Hao understood somewhat. Isn't this the way Sicong used to be?

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